Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on threshold

A goblin once described threshold as 'vibes but with consequences.' I have thought about this every day since.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past threshold rather than at it, on the theory that threshold reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Goblin Periphery: shadow

To a goblin, shadow is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about shadow feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Goblin Tangent: network

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the network-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

An informal goblin poll on threshold produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'